Main menu

Sub menu

Around and around

by Dorothy Gebert • March 20, 2014 • Comments Off on Around and around

…and around up 219 steps to the top of the St. Augustine Lighthouse & Museum.

It’s not as bad on the legs as some lighthouses and tower monuments can be, because it has landings at regular intervals for rest breaks, but it’s still a good workout. I can’t imagine hauling a 30 pound can of fuel oil up those steps even once, let alone several times a night like the light keeper had to do to keep the light burning!

The current lighthouse was built in 1874, with a light keeper’s cottage added 2 years later, but there has been a lighthouse at this location on the eastern Florida coast ever since the late 1500s, when the Spaniards built a watchtower after founding the colony of San Agustin.

Post navigation

Featured Posts

Rare paper

It’s not often one has the opportunity to see rare documents. So it was wonderful for me to be able to peruse original copies of Shakespeare’s First Folio and the Declaration of Independence, which were on display at the Dallas…